(verb) : cēno (caen- and coen-), āvi (e. g. Lucil. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24: Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 154; Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 3; Suet. Aug. 64; id. Calig. 24 al.; acc. to Varr. ap. Gell. 2, 25, 7, also cenatus sum, but of that only the
* Part. cenatus is in use; v.infra, and cf. poto and prandeo), ātum, 1, and a. [cena].
* Neutr., to take a meal, to dine, eat (class., and very freq.): libenter,Cato, R. R. 156, 1: cenavi modo, Plant. Am. 1, 1, 154: lepide nitideque,id. Cas. 3, 6, 32: bene, Lucil l. l.; cf. belle, Mart. 11, 34, 4: solus,id. 11, 35, 4 spes bene cenandi, Juv. 5, 166: bene, libenter, recte, frugaliter, honeste... prave, nequiter, turpiter,Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25: melius,id. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: foris,Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 17; Mart. 12, 19: foras,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19: lauto paratu,Juv. 14, 13 al.: apud aliquem,Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 7; Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 3; Appius ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 246; Suet. Caes. 39 al.: cum aliquo,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 70; Suet. Calig. 24; Juv. 10, 235 al.: unā,Hor. S. 2, 8, 18; Suet. Aug. 64; id. Vit. Ter. 2: in litore,Quint. 7, 3, 31 et saep.
* Pass. impers.: cenaretur,Suet. Tib. 42: apud eum cenatum est,Nep. Att. 14, 1; so Liv. 2, 4, 5.
* Act.: aliquid, to make a meal of something, to eat, dine upon (so only poet. or in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Plaut. and Hor.): cenam,Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 24: coctum,id. Ps. 3, 2, 56: alienum,id. Pers. 4, 3, 4: aves,Hor. S. 2, 8, 27: aprum,id. ib. 2, 3, 235: olus,id. Ep. 1, 5, 2; 2, 2, 168: pulmenta,id. ib. 1, 18, 48: patinas omasi,id. ib. 1, 15, 34: pisces,id. S. 2, 8, 27: septem fercula,Juv. 1, 95: ostrea,id. 8, 85; Mart. 12, 17, 4: remedia,Plin. 24, 1, 1, § 4; 10, 51, 72, § 142: olla cenanda Glyconi,Pers. 5, 9.
* Trop.: magnum malum,Plaut. As. 5, 2, 86: divorum adulteria, i. e. represents at table, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70 (v. the passage in connection).—*
* Of time, to pass in feasting or banqueting: cenatae noctes,Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 25.

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